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ZENSday: Free Meditation & Yoga!

Every Wednesday at the Peace Museum!

Meditation, understood properly, is a process to create a meditative state. Once this meditative state is achieved, where there is serenity, calmness and peace we are able to manifest the intrinsic goodness of our heart. This expression of our heart’s goodness makes peace more dynamic and life-affirming, and, in its wake, brings unity and harmony to this world.Kamlesh Patel

Meditation @ 5:15pm Yoga @ 6pm

Brought to you by our friends at:

Natural Path Meditation Center 3153 Lantz Rd, Beavercreek, OH 45432

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Zumba & Yoga with Kay Fitness

Kenaesha (Kay) Edwards is an AFAA Certified Group Exercise Instructor who has led Zumba classes for three years in Dayton, Ohio. In seeking to expand her own fitness journey, Kay began taking Yoga classes and recently completed YogaFit training to, also, share her passion for Yoga with others. Prior to becoming a Group Exercise Instructor, Kay embarked upon her own fitness and improved health journey, which has led to a 175-pound weight loss. Through her experience, Kay learned that maintaining overall health and well-being is a continuous, lifelong journey and developed a passion to support and encourage others in their fitness journeys. In each of her classes, Kay strives to ensure a judgment-free atmosphere so that each of her students feels welcomed and accepted, recalling the challenges she encountered when initially beginning fitness classes.

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Mentors Needed

Last Chance to make a donation for 2017 and receive a signed print from our recent exhibit

By NY Peace Institute Leader and artist, Brad Heckman. Two sizes for a great gift!

Mentors Needed

Last Chance to make a donation for 2017 and receive a signed print from our recent exhibit

By NY Peace Institute Leader and artist, Brad Heckman. Two sizes for a great gift!

Mentors for Teens

Are you interested in nonviolent action and supporting today’s youth? The Dayton International Peace Museum TIPS (Teens Inventing Peaceful Solutions) program is looking for mentors to bring youthful energy to the group. This is an opportunity for mentors to build leadership skills. We work with Kingian strategies to support teens at they build nonviolence and conflict resolution skills. In the words of Lacie, “As a mentor, I have gained lifelong skills and a wider worldview that has truly changed my life. “ We are looking for passionate, positive people to bring different strengths and interests to the group. If interested, please contact Jan at peacepathsteps@gmail.com or Lacie at miller.1338@wright.edu

Guns

Guns

Cities of Peace

Do you have an interest in creating new exhibits? The Museum is always looking for new talent.

Click on Volunteers to learn more on how you can help.

Cities of Peace

Do you have an interest in creating new exhibits? The Museum is always looking for new talent.

Click on Volunteers to learn more on how you can help.

Cities of Peace Exhibit Continues

What are Cities of Peace?

Where are Cities of Peace?

Why are Cities of Peace Important?

What is a Culture of Peace?

What is Peacebuilding?

How can we foster an Economy of Peace?

Dayton was the first "City of Peace" and now there are more than 150 Cities of Peace worldwide.

Come see the exhibit at the Dayton International Peace Museum to answer these questions.

2017 Lit peace prize

2017 Lit peace prize

Americorps

Americorps

Five AmeriCorps volunteers recently descended on our wonderful but chaotic peace museum library and digital collection and completely reorganized it for us! Guided by Charlotte Chinn of the Ohio Reading Corps, the group did a wonderful job of cataloging scores of new books and creating some much-needed order across the library.

This included organizing the recent years' editions of winners and nominees of the Dayton Peace Literacy Awards. The books are now in order, making each one easy to locate on the shelves for anyone in the community who wishes to do research or borrow from our growing collection.

AmeriCorps Volunteers Organize our Library!

Are you a teacher or writer? Just interested in peace studies? Anyone in the community can borrow from our library collection of books, CD's, DVD's and manuscripts to do research, gain insight, or create lesson plans free of charge!

Birthday Project

Want to help the Museum by having a party? See information below on the "BIRTHDAY PROJECT"

Birthday Project

Want to help the Museum by having a party? See information below on the "BIRTHDAY PROJECT"

The Birthday Project

Would you like to celebrate your birthday, anniversary, retirement, ANYTHING, and help the Dayton International Peace Museum achieve its goal of promoting peace in the Miami Valley and beyond?

The Birthday Project is an idea created by Charlotte, one our of top board members enabling museum friends and supporters to invite family and friends to celebrate and ask for donations to the Museum in lieu of gifts. Invited guests receive chances for original and hand-made door prizes, private museum tours and use of the Museum's kitchen and reception areas for their celebration. The museum has plenty of free parking in a great location in downtown Dayton.

Contact the museum for more information on how you can schedule your upcoming event and help the museum all at the same time!

Local Peace Heroes

Local Peace Heroes:

Peace literacy happens when we learn skills and knowledge from everyday local peace heroes.

Local Peace Heroes

Local Peace Heroes:

Peace literacy happens when we learn skills and knowledge from everyday local peace heroes.

Ted Studebaker

Ted Studebaker

Click on the photo below to watch the video

This is the ABC News account of the story of Ted Studebaker, just after he was killed in Viet Nam in 1971. It was resurrected from partial film elements found in both the Brethren Historical Library and Archives in Elgin, IL and the Archives at Manchester College, North Manchester, IN and re-edited to replicate the original broadcast.

Ted Studebaker

Ted Studebaker (born September 29, 1945, outside of Dayton, Ohio) was a pacifist and conscientious objector who served as an agricultural worker during the Vietnam War and was executed by North Vietnam in 1971.

Studebaker was the 7th child of eight born on a farm in the small town of West Milton, Ohio. He was a devout member of the Church of the Brethren, and also excelled in sports and played football in high school as well as in college where he attended the small liberal arts school Manchester College in Indiana. He then attended Florida State University for two years pursuing his graduate degree in social work before he left for Vietnam. He also had a great love for music and was a guitarist.

While in Vietnam he volunteered with the Vietnam Christian service where he volunteered for two years working with a Montagnard hill tribe where he helped them with agricultural production.

He was killed on April 26, 1971 by North Vietnamese when they first attacked the volunteers’ house with rockets and then invaded. The soldiers did not know who Studebaker was, they merely saw him as an American and therefore a threat and so he was executed. The lives of his wife and other volunteers were spared.